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Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday unveiled the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the company's first consumer-ready glasses with a built-in display.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to start working with StopNCII, a nonprofit that helps prevent the spread of nonconsensual images online. For advocates, the move marks a significant, albeit overdue, step in the search giant's efforts against image-based abuse.

Kayvon Beykpour said he built Macroscope because of how difficult it was to track what developers were working on at Twitter.

Reddit Inc. is in early talks to strike its next content-sharing agreement with Alphabet Inc.’s Google, aiming to extract more value from future deals now that its data plays a prominent role in search results and generative AI training.

Mark Zuckerberg is set to keynote Meta Connect 2025 on Wednesday at 8PM ET, and we're expecting to see news about AI and smart glasses.

Meta is expected to double down on AI-powered augmented reality products with new smart glasses at its annual Connect event on Wednesday,...

After more than a year of negotiations, the US and China have struck a framework agreement to hive off the US operations of social media platform TikTok to a consortium that includes software giant Oracle Corp. If the deal is finalized, it would resolve a persistent issue in Beijing-Washington relations that has become entangled in broader negotiations over trade.

President Donald Trump extended a deadline on Tuesday that would require China's ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. business or face an effective ban in America.

President Donald Trump extended a deadline on Tuesday that would require China's ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. business or face an effective ban in America.

TikTok’s US operations would be acquired by a consortium that includes Oracle Corp., Andreessen Horowitz and private equity firm Silver Lake Management LLC under a deal President Donald Trump is set to discuss with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

President Donald Trump again extended the deadline for TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. to divest the platform’s US operations — this time until Dec. 16 — staving off a nationwide shutdown of the app.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to speak Friday to finalize the TikTok deal.

While legally questionable, the extension comes just as it appears China and the U.S. may finally have a deal on TikTok's fate.

Oracle Corp. shares rose on news that negotiations over the future of TikTok are progressing, relieving some uncertainty around one of the software company’s key customers.

The company also announced new artificial intelligence tools for YouTube Shorts, its short-form vertical video product.

Deal talks have dragged, with President Donald Trump extending the deadline three times since taking office in January.

... Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, a class action settlement that covered anyone who had a Facebook account between 2007 and...

A Meta video spotted by UploadVR shows new Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with a display as well as new wraparound “Sphaera” Oakley smart glasses.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to speak Friday to finalize the TikTok deal.

Analysts and investors will be watching how the public responds to Meta's big bet on smart glasses during its Connect event.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the threat of allowing the social media app TikTok to go dark in the US was what ultimately sealed a framework deal in Madrid that would see the American iteration of the platform enter US hands — severing connections with its Chinese parent company ByteDance.

The U.S. and China have a 'framework' deal for social media platform TikTok in place, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday.

U.S. officials have announced a "framework" that would let Chinese-owned short video platform TikTok continue operations in the United States, although the two countries are still working out the details.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox blamed social-media companies for helping foment divisiveness that led to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling them “conflict entrepreneurs” that profit from political polarization.

For the millions of Americans expecting a check from the $725 million Facebook privacy settlement, the wait is nearly over.

Paramount said on Wednesday that Meta executive Dane Glasgow will join the media company as its chief product officer.

... are finally giving us a better idea of how big individual payouts will be in the $725 million class action lawsuit over Facebook users' privacy.

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The Federal Trade Commission is issuing orders to seven companies to understand how their AI chatbots potentially negatively affect kids and teenagers.